描述 Diagnosis.—A Tglototriton differing from verrucosus and asperrimus in having, the eostal glands very indistinct and aquarish. T.cerrucosus has fourteen ribs, the last one the sacral, and has fifteen or sixteen large, distinct, rounded and light-colored cost al flands. T.asperrimus hads fifteen ribs, the last two being sacrals, and has fifteen or sixteen small, rounded costal glands, of the same coloration as the body. T.taliangensis (pl.3,fig.3) can easily be .distinguished from kweochowensis by its uniformly bl ack body and long black tail, where as kweichowensis has light-colored longitudinal bands on the back, and a relatively shory, light-colored tail.
Description of rgpe.—Body moderately stout. Head depressed, longer than broad, its height about half of its width; snout squarish and projeeting beyond the mouth; cranial ridges prominent, with a broad, somewhat convex space or top of the head; nostrils at the corners of the squarish snout; length of eye equa to the distance from the nostril to the anterior corner of the eye;
upper eyelid with small warts, the lower free from warts; an elongated oval elevation on the top of the head with a free posterior edge in a line with the posterior ends of the cranial ridges; light-cored parotoid glands well developed, their caudal ends curved mesad in the neck region; mouth large, rictus in line with the posterior ends of the cranial ridges; tongue small and tunded; vomero-palatine teeth in two long oblique longitudinal series, near each other between the choanae, siverging posteriorly, and ending in a line at the middle of the quadratojugal bone; gular fold distinct and linited to the ventral side. Body cylindricak wirh vervindistinct squarish costal grooves; ribs sixteen, the first two under the scapula and the last one modified as a sacral. Arm long, the tip of the longest tinger reaching beyond the snout; fingers flattened, 2-3-4-1 in order of length; no subarticular or palmar tubercles; when the arm and leg are appressed,the fingers and toes overlap. Legs well developed,woth five well-developed toes; toes flst and long, 3-4-2-5-1 in order of length,the third only slightly longer than the fourth; no subarticular or metatarsal tubercles. Tail weak, thin and long,117.2 per cent of the body length, low,at the highest place only 11.7 per cent of the body lengh; the thin ,sharp-edged dorsal tail fin reaching farther forward than the anterior margin of the vent; the ventral tail fin rounded and thick,reaching the posterior edge of the vent; the tail tip rounded, but very thin and narrow.
The skin very rough, with numerous small and large warts scattered over the body, except on the very margin of the jaws,aroun
d the lower eyelids, the ventral and dorsal surfaces of the digits, and the ventral edge of the tail; besides warts, the muscular portion of the tail has many vertical rolds, and the belly many transverse folds. Vent a long slit, its length 9.8 per cent of the body length surrounded by numerous folds.